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WHAT: Autumn isin air and the air is filled with glorious song when Southern Utah University´sDepartment of Music presents An Autumn Choral Concert. The program featuresperformances by SUU´s Concert Choir, Women´s Choir and Opus. Dr. Kevin L. Bakerconducts the Concert Choir and Opus and Professor Sara Guttenberg conducts theWomen´s Choir.
WHO: Southern Utah University, College of Performing and VisualArts, Department of Music
WHEN: October 17, 2012
TIME: 7:30pm
WHERE: HeritageCenter Theater, Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: $6 for Adults, $4 for SUU faculty and staff and $3 for youth SUU students are free with a valid I.D.card.
PURCHASE: (435) 586-7872, M-F, 8am-4:30pm, www.suu.edu/arts or may bepurchased at the door.
SUU´sDEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTSANAUTUMN CHORAL CONCERTOCTOBER17, 2012
Southern UtahUniversity, Cedar City, Utah: Autumn is inair and the air is filled with glorious song when Southern Utah University´s Department of Music presents An Autumn Choral Concert. The programfeatures performances by SUU´s ConcertChoir, Women´s Choir and Opus. Dr. Kevin L. Baker conducts the ConcertChoir and Opus and Professor SaraGuttenberg conducts the Women´s Choir. Scheduled for Wednesday, October 17th, the performance begins at 7:30pm at Cedar City´s Heritage Center Theater. Tickets are $6 for Adults, $4 for SUUfaculty/staff and $3 for youth. SUU students are free with a valid I.D. card.
AnAutumn Choral Concert will be an interesting mix of styles andgenres of choral music. From theinfectious rhythms of African music set for two choirs to classics like Brahms´"How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place" from his Requiemand works by Handel and Mendelssohn, there will be something for every choralfan´s musical palate. Two interesting works will be Egil Hovland´s "Saul",which uses narrator and a chorus and György Orbán´s "Daemon Irrepit Callidus.The first work uses unique sounds and dissonances to tell the story of God´sconfrontation of Saul as a persecutor of Christians. The work by Orbándiscusses the devil´s attempts to influence human behavior. The concert endswith a look at another universality of the human experience - love. Robert Young´s rich setting of Rossetti´sbeautiful poetry is lush and interesting and Vaughan Williams "See the Chariot"is a wedding chorus from his opera SirJohn In Love.
Kevin L. Baker, Ph.D., joined the faculty at SouthernUtah University as Director of Choral Activities in the fall of 2011. Hedirects the Concert Choir and Opus as well as teaches choral conducting, choraltechniques and studio voice. He was previously Associate Professor of Music andDirector of Choral Activities at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri. Hisresponsibilities there included directing the choral program consisting of theConcert, Chamber, and Collegiate Choir, teaching studio voice, conducting,choral techniques, choral repertoire, and choral arranging. Prior to hisappointment at Culver-Stockton College, he was a tenured member of the musicdepartment at St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin, a position he assumed inthe fall of 2001. There he served as the choral director and as Director of theMusic Department from 2005 - 2007. A native of Missouri, he received hisBachelor´s degree from Southwest Baptist University and earned a Master´sdegree in Choral Conducting and the Ph.D. from the University of Missouri -Columbia. He has studied conducting with Dr. David Rayl, Dr. Duncan Couch, andMr. Edward Dolbashian; voice with Dr. Lee Snook; and has performed masterclasses with or sung under Sir David Willcocks, John Rutter, Dr. DouglasMcEwen, Mr. Rodney Eichenberger and Dr. Charlene Archebeque. His teachingcareer has encompassed nearly every educational level from elementary throughjunior high and high school and to two-year colleges and universities. He hasserved as Minister of Music for churches in Missouri and conducted communitychoirs as well. As Director of the Choral Arts Singers, a St. Louis, Missouricommunity-based adult group, he performed major choral/orchestral works on arecurring basis, which often included members of the St. Louis SymphonyOrchestra. He was also the conductor and artistic director for the Green BayChamber Choir, a position he assumed in the fall of 2004. He is in demand as a clinician andadjudicator, and has lectured at the Missouri Choral Directors Associationstate convention presenting a workshop on "The Care and Feeding of the AdultAmateur Voice." He has adjudicated for the Six Flags over America Corporation,judged contests across the state of Missouri at both the district and statelevel, and worked with numerous all-conference, district, and local choralgroups in festivals and clinics in Wisconsin, Missouri and Utah.
Highly sought after as botha soloist and chamber artist, soprano SaraGuttenberg is a current member of the critically acclaimed chamber choirSeraphic Fire (Miami), Spire Chamber Ensemble (Kansas City) and the Oregon BachFestival chorus. She has performed and recorded music of multiple vocalgenres. As an oratorio soloist, she hasreceived praise for her performances of Handel´s Messiah, Bach´s Mass in BMinor and St. John Passion,Mendelssohn´s Elijah, and theMonteverdi Vespers. She is a featuredensemble soloist on the Naxos recordings of William Bolcom´s Songs of Innocence and of Experience,which received three Grammys. Ms. Guttenberg has sung under the batons ofNicholas McGegan, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Nelson, Leonard Slatkin, andHelmuth Rilling. She is also a champion of new music, having participated inworkshop and premiere performances of works of Bright Sheng, Kristin Kuster,and Shawn Crouch, among others. Originally from Wisconsin, Ms. Guttenbergreceived her bachelor´s degree in music education and vocal performance fromthe University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied with Ilona Kombrink, andmasters´ degrees in vocal performance and choral conducting from the Universityof Michigan, where she studied with Carmen Pelton and Jerry Blackstone. AtSouthern Utah University, Sara Guttenberg is currently an adjunct VoiceInstructor as well as Director and Choral Conductor of SUU´s Women´sChoir.
Enjoy a wonderfulevening of music by attending An AutumnChoral Concert. For more information on the SUU College of Performing andVisual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.
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